mullethunter Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 They look really furtive in there! 15' is quite high - clever chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 My 2 girls Hetty Feather and Matilda Wormwood. Aged 9 weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 RS - Well a quick look at the picture and there aren't too many boyish combs on show Prizes for anybody who can see 9 happy faces in that shot Well a fantasy prize of your choosing anyway Chickabee - your girls look really nice and happy on their branch and what great names Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I can only see 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Just clicked on the picture. I can see 9 now. One little head peeking out. Yay I've won a prize. Is it more chickens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 My fantasy prize has grown to be a chicken breeding 'stud' with lots of varieties and staff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 my you have got it bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 What are you lot like, lol.......you leave a thread for a few days and talking morehens....... All the doodles are in a house tonight as 48mph gales due to strengthen to 60+!!! Lifted the chook off my bedroom windowsill and carried her down...on way back noticed three faces up in the willows! An Isa and two speckledys! Can't reach them, but to be honest they have lived through worse winds up here last winter and it's not too cold and dry. Silly chooks! Have left all the outside lights on incase they decide to relocate in the next few hours, but somehow doubt it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 P.s. Lovely chooks chickabee! Had to go back to my own pic and count the doodles, actually 8 doodles and one lemon brahma girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 No-one blown away overnight I hope? They must have to cling on pretty tight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 All chooks present and correct. Lovely sunny day now with a breeze. The oldies have been through a couple of winters of storms now so nothing fazes them........hopefully if they communicate in their own way they can say to the younger ones 'go back to sleep, NOWT but a bit o wind' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Treated myself to a white star today - my prize. Glad all your chooks were ok with the weather RS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Well done on the new chook! I am NOT getting anymore for quite some time as 42 gobs to feed and clean up after is more than enough! Who knew starting with 6 little chooks would end up as 42 in just over two yrs Tomorrow I have the enviable job of dragging two organic bins down and mucking out (thankfully good forecast) but it's gonna get mucky this winter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 . I thought 16 was bad. Hubby talking about moving to a farm though. Just imagine how many I could have then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Few doodles in a barrel this afternoon, safe to say the one in front is a boy? May need to click on the pic to open it fully. Doodles are still sleeping up a tree with mum. Cleaned the houses out yest, and in one saw a Sussex on her lonesome, the other two must have had 16 each or thereabouts?! Oh well they will do as they please. Oh, forgot, three in the willows and a miss speckledy back in my bedroom windowsill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I'm still trying to teach myself sexing chickens. I'm not 100% sure that's a boy. Saddle feathers look quite rounded. I need lessons I'm afraid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Och, your Nae help at all woman!, lol. Guess I'll have to keep them all a few months yet......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Chook off windowsill and managed to get into the willows to grab the other three, storm coming later. Doodles not in trees so assume in a house tonight. All tucked up un nice clean straw I hope...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Calm after the storm of last night. Gales are starting early this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 It's horrid here in Essex too. Windy and rainy. The exbats don't mind, but all the others are hunched up and miserable looking. Poor things. I've got some butternut squash. That might cheer them up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Love all the pictures and the 'spot the doodle bug' competition but gales - brr - I hate wind full stop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 Enjoying the nice weather once again. The doodlebugs are now in the huge ash tree outside my bathroom window every night with mum? They are getting so big that I struggle to see which they are some lunchtimes. Some of them still squeak when I come home and a couple are still smaller but others almost blend in with the big girls now due to size! Took miss speckledy of my bedroom windowsill and stuffed her in a house earlier, not sure why I bother as she will be back tomorrow! Joys of chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 I love the thought of your garden with trees full of chickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Horrible wet day, chucking it down. Came home tonight whilst still light and put fresh straw in the little broody coop for the doodles. No?, only use that for daytime shelter........back up 15 FT into the Ash tree they went? They wiil get soaked but nothing I can do about it! Silly chooks! Down to only nine eggs today due to moulting/huff re the weather.....roll on spring and the clocks haven't changed yet! Top garden is now pretty sodden and reduced to mud. Gonna be a long five months......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I've worked out that from Monday the girls are only going to get about 45 mins FR time before bed on a normal work day Roll on new house and big WIR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
